The body of a diplomat working at the British Embassy in Lebanon has been found unceremoniously dumped by the roadside on the outskirts of Beirut, various media reported. According to the BBC, citing senior police officers in Beirut, Rebecca Dykes, 30, was strangled with a rope. Local media reports said that Dykes was also raped, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Philippines is considered to be “the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms.” According to Philippine officials, at least 26 people have been killed as a result of landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak, while thousands of Filipinos who were heading home for Christmas have reportedly been stranded, Sputnik […]
At least nine people were killed and 57 people injured when two suicide bombers attacked a Sunday church service in the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Pakistan on 17 December 2017 in the Balochistani city of Quetta. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack. The attack is one in a series of attacks on Christians in […]
An earthquake recorded at 7.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Tasikmalaya, West Java late Friday evening, APA reports quoting Anadolu agency. The Indonesian meteorology agency said the quake occurred at 11.47 p.m. local time, 105 kilometers underwater with an epicenter 43 kilometers southwest of the city of Tasikmalaya. Officials have warned local residents of […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israel has closed border crossings into the Gaza Strip as the regime steps up its aerial assaults against the besieged coastal enclave. The Israeli military said in a statement that “due to the security events and in accordance with security assessments” Kerem Shalom crossing – the main passage point for goods entering […]
Malaysia and Indonesia were among Islamic countries that declared Wednesday they were recognizing East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, while collectively condemning the United States for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. At the end of an emergency meeting in Istanbul, the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued a communiqué calling on […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Seventeen people have been injured in an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that jolted Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman on Tuesday, Seyed Mohammad Saberi, the head of the province’s medical emergency center said. According to the Seismological Center of the Institute of Geophysics of Tehran University, the earthquake hit an […]
TEHRAN(Tasnim) – More than a dozen people have been arrested by Indonesian anti-terrorism police, authorities said Monday, as they beef up security in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays. Police said they detained 13 suspected militants in separate, pre-emptive raids over the weekend across the Southeast Asian nation, […]
